Increasing the thermal stability of an oligomeric protein, beta-glucuronidase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 315, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 325-337

  Flores, Humberto ^a   Ellington, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta glucuronidase; Directed evolution; Random mutagenesis; Thermostability, DNA shuffling

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; ENZYME VARIANT; OLIGOMER; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0036303387     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5223     Document Type: Article

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